I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

The next morning, early in the morning—

Hirose Domain, Ryuya——

There are two floors in the flowing house. The first floor is the izakaya where Asaki and the others live, and the second floor is where they live.

Ah Fu, who just got up from the bed, saw Ah Saki lying on the table, scribbling and drawing something.

"Miss Azaki..." Ah Fu asked Azaki as he walked towards Azaki, "What are you writing?"

After pressing his chest against A Saki's back and pressing his chin on A Saki's right shoulder so that his eyes could go over A Saki's back and shoulders, Afu realized that A Saki was not writing anything .

Instead, you are painting a picture.

Although Azaki's painting skills are not very good, Afu can barely recognize that Azaki is drawing a young samurai with two swords in his waist and long hair.

"I'm drawing Ogata-sama." A Saki said, "With the portrait of Ogata-sama, it should be much easier to find him..."

A Saki's simple words immediately made the atmosphere of the whole room heavy.

Ah Fu lowered his eyes: "Master Ogata, where did he go..."

One month ago, not long after Ogata "disappeared", Saki and Afu learned a shocking news: something happened to the Sakakibara Sword Gym where Ogata usually practiced swords.

Although this incident was blocked by the news, Saki and the others learned from various channels that the masters and apprentices of the Sakakibara Sword Gym were massacred for unknown reasons...

This news undoubtedly made Saki and the others even more uneasy...

But what makes Azaki and the others feel lucky is that Ogata should still be alive. But I just don't know where he went

Because after the accident at the Sakakibara Sword Gym, Ogata sent them a farewell letter to Liuwu.

"All right!"

Ah Saki dried all the ink on the paper, then raised the paper in her hand, and looked it up and down several times with satisfaction.

"Ah Fu! What do you think of my painting?"

"Hmm...it's okay..." Ah Fu almost squeezed all the words in this sentence from between his teeth.

After all, the picture drawn by Azaki is not similar to Ogata except for the three points of having a saber at the waist, long hair, and a more well-proportioned figure...

Looking at the portrait that Ah Saki has painstakingly drawn, Ah Fu pursed his lips.

"Miss Azaka...if we can't find Ogata-sama...what should we do?"

"Of course we have been looking for it all the time." Ah Saki said without thinking, "No matter how long it takes, we will keep looking for it."

"Lord Ogata is the only samurai willing to help us."

A faint look of reminiscence appeared on Asaki's face.

"Before Ogata-sama appeared, I found countless samurai... I hope these samurai can help us guard the Ruiya."

"But these warriors are extremely arrogant."

"They all despise that my izakaya is just a crappy and small izakaya. To guard such a dilapidated izakaya will damage their samurai status. They would rather work as thugs for some casinos than come to our izakaya."

"Only Ogata-sama is willing to come here."

"And only Ogata-sama has no samurai airs at all, and will not discriminate against us because of our status as civilians."

"Just his character alone is worth my effort to get him back."

"What's more - he is kind to us."

Asaki looked at Ah Fu with a smile.

"At that time, after the people from the Ishikawa Sword Gym came to trouble us, Ogata-sama went to the Ishikawa Sword Gym alone, beat up many disciples of the Ishikawa Sword Gym, and helped us vent our anger."

"Just because Ogata-sama helped us out, we have to repay Ogata-kun properly. Ah Fu, are you right?"

"Yeah!" After listening to what Ah Saki said just now,

The dark clouds that originally covered Ah Fu's face gradually dissipated, and a bright smile gradually hung on Ah Fu's cheeks.

at this time--

"Excuse me, is anyone there?"

A strange male voice suddenly sounded outside the gate on the first floor.

Hearing this male voice, Saki and Afu both frowned.

"Who is it..." Ah Saki muttered as she got up and walked towards the first floor.

It's just dawn now.

Ah Saki has been running the flow house for so many years, and there are guests visiting at dawn-this is the first time A Saki has encountered such a thing.

Slowly open the door of the flow house.

Standing outside the gate of Ruiya was a young samurai with a clean shaved head, dressed in decent clothes, and two knives stuck in his waist.

When the young samurai saw Azaki, he immediately asked Azaki:

"Excuse me—are you Miss Azaka?"

"Well, I'm..." Ah Saki can assure you - she definitely doesn't know this person, "May I ask who you are?"

"I'm here to give you something."

After all, the young samurai took out a small cloth bag from his arms, and handed it to Saki.

After taking the small cloth bag from the young samurai with full of doubts, a familiar sound and touch passed from the cloth bag to Ah Saki's palm.

"This is...?!" Azaki widened her eyes.

Ah Saki quickly opened the small cloth bag.

Sure enough—it contained a large amount of fines.

"This is what Ogata Yishi-kun asked me to give you." The young samurai said, "He also asked me to bring you a sentence-use the money to buy a new Wu suit for Ah Fu, and hire a A more reliable samurai than him."

"Then—I take my leave."

The samurai who successfully completed the two tasks of sending money and bringing words turned around and wanted to leave.

However - as soon as he turned around, Saki and Afu both rushed to him and opened their arms.

"Wait for me! You just said that Master Ogata gave us the money, right?" Saki asked anxiously, "Let me ask you—where is Master Ogata right now?"

"One step..." The young warrior smiled wryly, "You are embarrassing me...I don't know where Ogata Itsuki-kun is now...I'm just a person who came to give money and talk... "

...

...

The young warrior wasn't lying.

He really didn't know where Ogata was now.

Cang Yong gave Ogata and others a large sum of money.

The money is regarded as the settling allowance and... pension for Ogata and others.

Ogata has no relatives, and his master and brothers have all died. Now the only people who can be regarded as Ogata's relatives and friends in this world are Saki and Afu.

Therefore, Ogata asked Cang Yong to arrange someone to help him send the money to the wandering house, and help him write a sentence for Azaki and the others.

When the young samurai entrusted by Ogata was being entangled by Azaki and Afu, Ogata was in the cemetery in the backyard of Xuanzhen Temple.

Together with Cang Yong and other patriots, they burn incense in front of a new tombstone in the cemetery of Xuanzhen Temple.

"Please rest in peace..." Cang Yong, who was the last one to burn incense, closed his eyes tightly and clasped his hands together.

And Ogata and others standing behind Cang Yong put their hands together and murmured "Please rest in peace".

Under this new tombstone, the poor women of Miaochang Temple who were poisoned by Matsudaira Gennai are buried.